All five 49ers quarterbacks will play on Sunday

Posted by Mike Florio on August 23, 2013, 8:22 PM EST

AP

This week, the 49ers expanded their roster of quarterbacks to five with the addition of Seneca Wallace. Coach Jim Harbaugh said Friday that all five will play on Sunday night, when the 49ers host the Vikings on Sunday Night Football.

“Yeah, you split it up, you split it up five ways,” Harbaugh told reporters, via quotes distributed by the team.

“I anticipate that,” Harbaugh said. “We’ll see how Scott does today in practice after an off day. He had something that he was working through and wasn’t able to, wasn’t at full speed Wednesday, Tuesday, and Monday or since the ballgame in Kansas City. We’ll see where he’s at today, and if he’s good to go and at 100 percent or close to it then we’ll split it up after Kap four ways.”

Harbaugh said McCoy will go second after Kaepernick.

The head coach also explained that the addition of Wallace doesn’t mean that the team lacks confidence in the current backups to Kaepernick.

“The fact that you could get an experienced quarterback like Seneca Wallace at this stage when you have seven-to-ten days ‘til there’s a final cut down to the final roster then a chance to bring him in to do more than just a workout,” Harbaugh said. “You get a chance to actually practice and play in a preseason game or two. So, I felt like there was no downside to doing that.”

If Kaepernick plays an entire half, as starters usually do in the third preseason game, that’ll leave roughly half of a quarter for each of the other four. Whichever of the five are left after Tuesday’s cut from 90 to 75 presumably will split the reps in the final preseason game.

Kaepernick will only play a series or two. Harbaugh has said a few times that he doesn’t want to expose Kaep to potential injury.

That being said, splitting a game 4 ways doesn’t leave too many reps for guys to distinguish themselves. Definitely not an ideal situation. Hopefully in future years the backup QB position is more settled.

Why would Jim play Kaep at all if there is 4 others waiting to be evaluated?
Also, the idea of bringing in Seneca is to be a potential back-up is ridiculous. We all know why he there. Don’t play us for fools, Jim.

kap will play 1 series again, the more he plays the more everyone will know 49ers have NOTHING behind Boldin. Moreover, that will exposed the fact the backup QBs are a bunch of fails that also have no worthy WRs to throw to lol…

It’s already out there, on NFL Network when they talked SB prediction, both Heath Evans and Darren Sharper pick SEA for NFC. On ESPN “Audibles”, 3 out of 4 pick SEA in the SB for the win, Darren Woodson call SEA the 1992 Cowboys, and only Steve Young pick the 9ers for SB from the NFC and got called a “Homer” immediately… LOL!

Fail WR Crop once and again and exposed by their own admission with trading their 1st round pick WR just a year ago for a proven bust when the season hasn’t even started lol… so fail.

Kaep will probably play one series. The other four will be competing for 2 roster spots and maybe a spot on the practice squad. I believe they keep Kaep, Tolzien, and Daniels. The Niners have shown they’re willing to fix their mistakes, that being said I’d say goodbye to McCoy.

unbiasfan says:
Aug 23, 2013 8:30 PM
Vikings will destroy them, like we do every year we play the Forty-Whiners..

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………and you still don’t make the playoffs. Let’s be honest…..it’s the Minnesota Peterson’s and some other guys. I hope AP doesn’t wind up like another great running back who ran for 2,000 yards who was constantly stuck on mediocre teams.

Rather see alot of Kap Sunday night than the backups. Vikes D has looked good but struggled last year against mobile QBs. Would like as much chance to see one as possible. Also hoping to finally see the offense take the field for the first time this preseason.

Webb & Wallace… The NFL is at it again, I have a friend who is a player on the Colts who told me they force the teams to keep a certain number of 2nd tier QB’s and give them a chance… See Green Bay with Young…lol

This is what the preseason is for, to evaluate players under live conditions. Too bad SF will get screwed because its only against the Vikings. I’m sure they would prefer to see how their Qbs do against real competition.